| A | B |
|---|
| mercenary | motivated by a desire for monetary or material gain; hired for service by a foreign army |
| odious | arousing strong dislike or intense displeasure |
| convalescence | the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness |
| irksome | annoying, irritating, evaporating, tiresome |
| eulogy | speech in honor of a deceased person |
| dilatoriness | procrastination, tardiness |
| perambulations | to walk or travel through; traverse in order to examine or inspect |
| repulsive | tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding |
| phenomena | fact, occurrence or circumstance observed |
| torrent | stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence |
| multitude | great number of people gathered together; crowd |
| minutiae | small or trivial detail |
| calamities | great misfortunes or disasters |
| depraved | corrupt, wicked, perverted |
| oblivion | the state of being completely forgotten or unknown |
| abhorrence | feeling of extreme repugnance |
| benevolent | desiring to help others; charitable |
| precipitous | abrupt; extremely or impassably steep |
| surmount | to prevail over |
| commiserate | to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with |
| vacillating | wavering; indecisive |
| immutable | unchangeable; changeless |
| docile | easily managed or handled |
| encomiums | a formal expression of high praise; tribute |
| solemn | grave, sober, or mirthless |
| conflagration | destructive fire |
| consummate | to complete an agreement by a pledge or signing a contract |
| extremity | a limb of the body |
| fiend | evil spirit; demon |
| hypocritical | pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess |
| contumely | contemptuous or humiliating treatment |
| irremediable | not admitting of cure, or repair |
| malignity | malevolence; intense ill will; spite |
| demonical | inspired as if by a spirit |
| diabolical | having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked |
| repentance | contrition for a past sin |
| paramount | chief in importance or impact; supreme |
| tumult | a general outbreak, riot, uprising |
| posterity | all descendants of one person: |
| augeries | priests or officials in the classical world |
| eloquence | fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking in public |
| infantine | babylike |
| speculation | contemplation or consideration of some subject |
| omnipotence | having very great or unlimited authority or power |
| delirium | temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication |
| insatiable | incapable of being appeased |
| opprobrium | disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy |
| paramount | chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent |
| adversary | person, group, or force that opposes or attacks |
| imminent | likely to occur at any moment; impending |
| dilate | expand |
| progeny | offspring, children |
| capacious | spacious, roomy |
| emaciated | thin and wasted |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| countenance | facial features, face |
| wantonly | immorally, cruelly |
| obliterated | destroyed completely |
| immutable | unchanging |
| debilitated | weakened |
| exhortations | urgings |
| abhorrent | hateful, despicable |
| sanguinary | involving or causing much bloodshed |
| indolence | laziness |
| sophisms | believable but isleading arguments |
| retrospect | looking back on past |
| satiated | fully satisfied |
| conflagration | a great fire |
| sustenance | means of nourishment |
| malicious | spiteful, malevolent, evil-intentioned, vindictive, vengeful,malign, mean, nasty, hurtful, mischievous, wounding, cruel, unkind |
